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For the artist Joan Jonas—a virtuoso dancer, composer, and sculptor—drawing serves as both a conditioned mode of practice, and sometimes as a final product. “It’s like practicing the piano,” she said in an exclusive interview with Art21 back in 2014. “The first ones that I do often don’t come out, so I have to practice […] More
Since 1754, one of Raphael’s most enigmatic paintings, , has resided at the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden (besides a short stint during which the painting headed to Russia, following the German’s loss in World War II). This weekend, the Madonna and her two iconic little angels are on view within a new constellation […] More
The designer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Neri Oxman has spent the last 20 years of her career thinking about new ways to live. She pushes at the boundaries between theoretical and functional design, the built environment and the natural one. She has conceptualized workable things that feel like they shouldn’t exist for another hundred […] More
The scientific committee of the Uffizi has collectively resigned in protest over the Florence museum’s decision to loan out Raphael’s portrait of Pope Leo X. The historic work is currently on view in Rome, despite the expert group’s recommendation that the painting was not in a state to be moved. The mass resignation occurred yesterday, […] More
I recognized Shirin Neshat by her black kohl eyeliner, which frames her kind eyes like war paint. We met at Goodman Gallery in London, where the veteran artist is presenting a new body of work in her first solo exhibition in the city in two decades. The two films and the series of photographic portraits […] More
It’s not easy for a young artist to make a name for herself. But it can be even more of a struggle for non-Western artists, like emerging Palestinian talent Dina Mimi, who lives and works in Jerusalem. It may be similarly challenging for Tunisian DJ and producer Deena Abdelwahed, a woman immersed in the male-dominated electronic […] More
Over the weekend, the nation got a new contemporary art museum: The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas. Situated in a repurposed Kraft cheese factory, the new space is the latest outpost of the nearby Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The Momentary’s industrial-strength embrace of emerging art is intended to augment that nine-year-old institution’s focus on art-historical […] More
Gladys Nilsson was beaming. On a recent afternoon the artist—a member of the Chicago group the Hairy Who, a once-fringe movement that’s increasingly beloved—was strolling through the galleries at Matthew Marks and Garth Greenan, admiring the precise curatorial choices in a much-anticipated fifty-year survey of her work. “It’s kind of thrilling really, to see them all […] More
